Weeks 15-18

These weeks passed by very quickly and so are all muddled up.
Week 15 - 2 Travelling Freaky shows
Week 16 - Elementary kids came to try and learn something useful
Week 17 - Middle school kids came to try not to learn anything much cause they are at that age where they don't want to learn anything.
Week 18 - Nothing happend as there was a 3 day holiday called Chusuck, which was nice as it allowed me to get to know Korean beer a bit better. After I had finished lots and lots of it I got them all mixed up and forgot which beers were good. So I had to do it all again the following evening. I was still unclear the following evening, and so have decided to continue this investigation over a longer period of time...until June 2008. I enlisted the help of my new best froend in Korea, Paul. Paul comes from upstairs, and has similar views on the freaky people that are here. We have agreed that neither of us will become gay. We will be 'just good friends'.

Things of note:
BFA Pete is still here. I thought he might have got the boot after the teachers complained about him. But of course the Korean leaders believe it's better to ignore problems until they go away...or not. If you don't ignore them then you have to do someting about them...and we don't want to do that, do we.
I have been given completely new mock venues to do. This time I have 'Andy's Fast Food Restaurant', the 'Tourist Information Centre', and 'The Street'. I also have to teach a 'Song and Dance' class, and skit class. Did I have any choice about this? No. Why not? Because just before I arrived in Korea the other foreigners here got together and chose what they wanted to do...and left the new guy (me) with all the worst/least interesting classes. Ellena (our 'leader') was too gutless to tell me, and all the others kept quiet too. So when I found out I had little time to prepare, or rather completely re-design all these failed lessons from last semester. I love the people I work with so much. They are great.

Elementary Kids week -
The Elementary kids were great fun and very lively...as they always are. It's just a shame they are left disappointed by so many of the lessons. In one class a student said I looked like Harry Potter, which I thought a bit odd, as I don't in any way look like him. But then the following happened:
Kid - 'Oh no...not Harry Potter. His friend. What's his name?'
Me - 'Dumbledore?'
Kid - 'No. John someone...'
Me - (sounding sad)'Do you mean Ron someone?'
Kid - 'Yes'
Me - (in a sad voice) 'Ron Weasley?'
Kid - (sounding very excited) 'Yes!'

The others agreed. They don't understand what they are doing to me, so I tried to forget it. But I was reminded often thoughout the week. I blame JK Rowling forr my current depression.
I can't remember much else of what happened during this period, but I guess it must be pretty much the same as before.